Undoubtedly, VHP could not function without its many passionate volunteers — some of whom are Vassar students, but many of whom hail from the Poughkeepsie community at large. Sara Friedland, a student at our local Spackenkill High School, represents the latter group.
Chan Chan: A Case Study in Settlement Archaeology
Crime Scene Archaeology
“Exactitude is not truth”: Henri Matisse’s Roses de Noel et Saxifrage
Today’s post comes from Angela Brown, class of 2016 and Art Center Student Docent.
For Henri Matisse, the most true and pure function of the painter was to show the essentials.
A Tale of a Compulsion to Cheat
She had been sick last week and so was taking a make-up exam in the conference room, her back to me through the glass window, hunched low over the stapled packet of exam questions. I had asked her to leave her coat and backpack in the department office and had told her I would check in on her every 30 minutes or so in case she had questions. Each time I looked in, she looked visibly more distressed: red-rimmed eyes, a thin sheen on her forehead, her hair mussed and tangled from running her fingers through it over and over.